Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Curiosity

Quotes about: Curiosity

• Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Life Lesson, Philosophical, Lust

  "Very Happy to Be Here!". Book by Edward Pavlik, p.137, December 1, 2006.

• Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Curiosity, Atheism

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.122, Xist Publishing

• Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Passion, Men, Animal

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.119

• Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals ; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal Pleasure.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Perseverance, Passion, Animal

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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